Oh dear lord…I checked their webpage this morning for a demo, and there was none, so I started acquiring it an…”alternate” way. (Not finished yet as my home “broadband” connection is rubbish.) But the demo seems to be about the same size as the full version?

Whoa small res alert!
The ui takes up a HUGE amount of screen space so if you play with a smaller screen res [like I do *sniff*] it’s difficult to see anything other then one or two ships on your screen at one time.
1024 is what I’m on you REALLY need to play on a bigger res then that.

i know it’s an arbitrary point to raise really, but everytime i play a space game i’m struck by the fact that nothing has yet to touch the sense of scale, beauty and fluidity that Eve Online delivers, and how ‘real’ it feels, if you know what i mean.
For me it’s a feeling that almost makes or breaks the game tbh. That ‘feeling’ imo is extremely important.

It’s 90 minutes per game, and you can play each game as many times as you want, so it’s not like you have to learn to love it in a hour and a half or else.

That said, I spent a little time fixing some stupid audio bug I got (I still get an annoying popping noise during battles), and then I played through the tutorials and about half an hour of one of the maps. I still need to play it a lot more before I make a decision but what little I dealt with was pretty cool. I might have to buy this.

Decent stuff, too bad I can’t buy it online myself. Those European publishers/distributors must have been scratching their eyes out now surely once they saw SoaSE is in the top charts? Release it here already!